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Emergent Sites Of Language Contact: Lexical Borrowing By Mexican Bilingual Speakers In Live-Streamed Tabletop Games, Ethan Sims 2025 University at Albany, State University of New York

Emergent Sites Of Language Contact: Lexical Borrowing By Mexican Bilingual Speakers In Live-Streamed Tabletop Games, Ethan Sims

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

The field of contact linguistics has investigated numerous sites of contact between languages and the resulting phenomena (Poplack et al.; 1988, for example); however, there remain many contact sites that have yet to be analyzed. The present dissertation views the lexical evidence of language contact between English and Spanish via the medium of live-streamed tabletop role-playing games. These games, often lacking accessible translations in languages other than English, have become a popular pastime over the last decade, which has increased the amount of contact between the two languages. Dungeons and Dragons, a roleplaying game which typically deals with fantasy elements, …


Rescued From Oblivion: Antoni Benaiges And Transgressive Pedagogy In El Maestro Que Prometió El Mar (Font, 2023), Parker Lawson 2025 Belmont University

Rescued From Oblivion: Antoni Benaiges And Transgressive Pedagogy In El Maestro Que Prometió El Mar (Font, 2023), Parker Lawson

Funded Scholarship

Patricia Font’s historical drama, El maestro que prometió el mar (2023), focuses on the pedagogy of Antoni Benaiges (1903–1936), a Republican educator who served for two years at a school in rural Burgos prior to being assassinated just days after the Nationalist uprising in July 1936. Focused also on the efforts to recuperate the legacy of Benaiges, whose body was deposited in a mass grave and has never been identified, the film employs a dual timeline narrative, telling interconnected stories in the past and the present to shed light on pre-Civil War education and contemporary discourses and practices of historical …


Remedios Varo: Peregrinaciones, Julia Condes 2025 University of Central Florida

Remedios Varo: Peregrinaciones, Julia Condes

Honors Undergraduate Theses

At the time of her death, the artist Remedios Varo (1908–1963) left behind over 500 works of art, the majority of which were created in her adopted country of Mexico. Known for her meticulously crafted fantastical paintings, Varo underwent exile and displacement due to first the Spanish Civil War, and later World War II, which led her to relocate to Mexico, where she would create prolifically for the remainder of her life. This paper will examine the effect of those experiences on the artist and the work she produced, attesting to Varo’s ability to translate complex emotions regarding the human …


A Story Of Oppression A Psychological And Creative Approach, Juan R. Morillo 2025 University of Central Florida

A Story Of Oppression A Psychological And Creative Approach, Juan R. Morillo

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The aim of this project is to survey the manner in which oppression is expressed in selected works of literature. It is a topic that not only am I familiar with through my studies of literature and psychology, but one that I, as well as every Venezuelan expatriate has witnessed and felt for their country. The project focuses on social and political oppression, using the current Venezuelan crisis as a focal point, and selected literary sources as a framework. I will analyze dystopian classics such as George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, as well as Margaret Atwood’s The …


Portraits Of Agency And Power: Exploring Andean Women In Guamán Poma's Chronicle, Ruby Sygar 2024 Portland State University

Portraits Of Agency And Power: Exploring Andean Women In Guamán Poma's Chronicle, Ruby Sygar

University Honors Theses

This study explores the depictions of women in Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala’s chronicle titled, El primer nueva crónica y buen gobierno. By concentrating on six distinct portraits within this manuscript, the findings intend to reveal the themes, differences, and symbolic meanings that characterize and differentiate these representations. The analysis delves into how these portrayals provide insights into the roles, status, and societal perceptions of women in Inca society during the colonial period. The situation of these depictions within the general context of gender and colonialism in Andean society aims to showcase how nobleman Guamán Poma’s work critiques and …


Lo Que No Borró El Desierto (2020) De Diana López Zuleta Y Cómo Maté A Mi Padre (2020) De Sara Jaramillo Klinkert: Crónica Y Memoir, Las Voces De Las Hijas En El Duelo, Bertha Galvan 2024 Texas A&M International University

Lo Que No Borró El Desierto (2020) De Diana López Zuleta Y Cómo Maté A Mi Padre (2020) De Sara Jaramillo Klinkert: Crónica Y Memoir, Las Voces De Las Hijas En El Duelo, Bertha Galvan

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the works of two Colombian authors, Diana López Zuleta and Sara Jaramillo Klinkert, who, as indirect victims of their father's murder, address impunity and its psychological effects through two genres: the chronicle and memoir. López Zuleta describes the process of mourning through the search for justice, while Jaramillo Klinkert explores mourning and the symbolic process of "killing the father" in a context of impunity. Both authors use their work to address the violence in Colombia, the memory, and the search for the truth, emphasizing the importance of literature as an aesthetic expression and a therapeutic and ethical …


Translating A Culture: How Subtitles In Popular Tv Shows Friends And La Que Se Avecina (The One That Looms) Maintain National Culture Within Translations, Abigail Lamkin 2024 Bellarmine University

Translating A Culture: How Subtitles In Popular Tv Shows Friends And La Que Se Avecina (The One That Looms) Maintain National Culture Within Translations, Abigail Lamkin

Undergraduate Theses

This study aims to determine the best ways for comedy-based TV shows to be translated so their cultural significance can be maintained while also becoming a piece of media that is enjoyed across linguistic barriers. Data was gathered from the TV shows Friends and La que se avecina and analyzed through comparison with one another. Analysis reveals both shows use unique techniques as a result of the specific challenges subtitle translators faced for the shows, but in general, focusing on one aspect of the translation over another would prevent the audience from enjoying the show. Friends's translations rely on …


Búsqueda De Babosas Marinas: Understanding Barriers Of Environmental Literacy And Climate Advocacy Within Southern California Spanish-Speakers, Cintya Felix, Ashley Lam, Lorena Muñoz, Micah Kim 2024 Chapman University

Búsqueda De Babosas Marinas: Understanding Barriers Of Environmental Literacy And Climate Advocacy Within Southern California Spanish-Speakers, Cintya Felix, Ashley Lam, Lorena Muñoz, Micah Kim

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

The Hispanic and Latino populations are the largest ethnic minority in California, and more than 10.4 million Californians consider Spanish their first language. However, English is the primary language in most educational and public spaces. This means Spanish-speaking communities have limited access to coastal ecosystems and learning opportunities about coastal areas impacted by climate change and extreme weather, which becomes a barrier to civic engagement, climate advocacy, and local decision-making. During the 2023 summer, we partnered with local climate advocacy organizations and held educational programs at two public beaches in southern California. The presentations in English and Spanish taught foundational …


Agencia Económica, Valorización Y Pedagogía Material En La Espiritualidad Afrocaribeña De Cuba, Puerto Rico Y República Dominicana, Karla Patricia Aguilar Velasquez 2024 Washington University in St. Louis

Agencia Económica, Valorización Y Pedagogía Material En La Espiritualidad Afrocaribeña De Cuba, Puerto Rico Y República Dominicana, Karla Patricia Aguilar Velasquez

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

En contra de estereotipos racistas y asociaciones con primitivismo y retraso social, los creyentes de Santería, Espiritismo y Vudú Dominicano desarrollan un complejo entendimiento de las condiciones económicas de su región como parte de su fe. Tal entendimiento viene marcado por una relación íntima con objetos religiosos que repercute en su vivencia cotidiana de prácticas de valorización, acumulación de riqueza y dinámicas neoliberales de mercado. A través del análisis de cuatro escenarios de representación, este proyecto explora las distintas estrategias discursivas que instituciones oficiales y seguidores han utilizado históricamente para limitar o celebrar la agencia económica de estas comunidades. Respectivamente, …


Una Historia Inspiradora Aprendiendo Espanol/An Inspirational Story Learning Spanish, Viviany Barbosa Brito 2024 Providence College

Una Historia Inspiradora Aprendiendo Espanol/An Inspirational Story Learning Spanish, Viviany Barbosa Brito

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


La Campeona/The Champion, Sara Diaz 2024 Providence College

La Campeona/The Champion, Sara Diaz

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


De Lima A Hartford/From Lima To Hartford, Kevin Susanin 2024 Providence College

De Lima A Hartford/From Lima To Hartford, Kevin Susanin

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


El Poderoso Michael/The Powerful Michael, Alejandro J. Guzman 2024 Providence College

El Poderoso Michael/The Powerful Michael, Alejandro J. Guzman

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


Orgullosamente Hispana/Proudly Hispanic, Marilyn Roque-Velasquez 2024 Providence College

Orgullosamente Hispana/Proudly Hispanic, Marilyn Roque-Velasquez

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


Nieve En Junio/Snow In June, Luisanny Castillo 2024 Providence College

Nieve En Junio/Snow In June, Luisanny Castillo

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


Preface, Ana Iraheta 2024 Providence College

Preface, Ana Iraheta

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


Our Heritage 2024, Ana Iraheta, Jake Turcotte, Angelina R. Tanzi 2024 Providence College

Our Heritage 2024, Ana Iraheta, Jake Turcotte, Angelina R. Tanzi

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

No abstract provided.


Reporteras En Acción, Amy Hiatt, Avery Hunsaker, Beth King, Emma Holmgren 2024 Utah State University

Reporteras En Acción, Amy Hiatt, Avery Hunsaker, Beth King, Emma Holmgren

Student Spanish Newspapers Collection

A Spanish magazine written and organized by four students in the Spanish 3060 Fall 2024 course. The magazine includes articles in four subjects: news, chronicles, interviews, and personal opinions.


La Dos Espíritus, Alfredo Avalos 2024 University of Texas at El Paso

La Dos Espíritus, Alfredo Avalos

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

A través de la novela La dos espíritus se examina la representación de las masculinidades diversas, disidentes de la heteronormatividad. El texto dialoga con la novela El vampiro de la colonia Roma (1978) de Luis Zapata y otras representaciones del personaje queer. A través de la protagonista Cayetana, una mujer transgénero y mediante el formato de una larga entrevista que le realiza el periodista Josué, la novela explora temas de identidad, marginalización y resistencia.


The Meanings Of The Hospital De San Lázaro In Seventeenth-Century Manila, Francis Galasi 2024 Case Western Reserve University

The Meanings Of The Hospital De San Lázaro In Seventeenth-Century Manila, Francis Galasi

Journal of Global Catholicism

The Hospital de San Lázaro was a specialized health facility in the early modern Philippines, dedicated to the care of lepers and sufferers of other contagious diseases. While it was established for this specific purpose, its role in colonial society varied. This versatility reflected the distinct priorities and commitments of the groups pulled into its orbit, as each charged San Lázaro with a unique meaning. This article explores how and why these groups—the indigenous Filipinos, the Spanish residents and the Discalced Franciscans—understood San Lázaro in their own way. It highlights the ability of fixed institutions, such as a hospital, to …


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